Custom Settings
- Dreamweaver User Guide
- Introduction
- Dreamweaver and Creative Cloud
- Dreamweaver workspaces and views
- Set up sites
- About Dreamweaver sites
- Set up a local version of your site
- Connect to a publishing server
- Set up a testing server
- Import and export Dreamweaver site settings
- Bring existing websites from a remote server to your local site root
- Accessibility features in Dreamweaver
- Advanced settings
- Set site preferences for transferring files
- Specify proxy server settings in Dreamweaver
- Synchronize Dreamweaver settings with Creative Cloud
- Using Git in Dreamweaver
- Manage files
- Create and open files
- Manage files and folders
- Getting and putting files to and from your server
- Check in and check out files
- Synchronize files
- Compare files for differences
- Cloak files and folders in your Dreamweaver site
- Enable Design Notes for Dreamweaver sites
- Preventing potential Gatekeeper exploit
- Layout and design
- CSS
- Understand Cascading Style Sheets
- Laying out pages using CSS Designer
- Using CSS preprocessors in Dreamweaver
- How to set CSS Style preferences in Dreamweaver
- Move CSS rules in Dreamweaver
- Convert inline CSS to a CSS rule in Dreamweaver
- Work with div tags
- Apply gradients to background
- Create and edit CSS3 transition effects in Dreamweaver
- Format code
- Page content and assets
- Set page properties
- Set CSS heading properties and CSS link properties
- Work with text
- Find and replace text, tags, and attributes
- DOM panel
- Edit in Live View
- Encoding documents in Dreamweaver
- Select and view elements in the Document window
- Set text properties in the Property inspector
- Spell check a web page
- Using horizontal rules in Dreamweaver
- Add and modify font combinations in Dreamweaver
- Work with assets
- Insert and update dates in Dreamweaver
- Create and manage favorite assets in Dreamweaver
- Insert and edit images in Dreamweaver
- Add media objects
- Adding videos in Dreamweaver
- Insert HTML5 video
- Insert SWF files
- Add audio effects
- Insert HTML5 audio in Dreamweaver
- Work with library items
- Using Arabic and Hebrew text in Dreamweaver
- Linking and navigation
- jQuery widgets and effects
- Coding websites
- About coding in Dreamweaver
- Coding environment in Dreamweaver
- Set coding preferences
- Customize code coloring
- Write and edit code
- Code hinting and code completion
- Collapse and expand code
- Reuse code with snippets
- Lint code
- Optimize code
- Edit code in Design view
- Work with head content for pages
- Insert server-side includes in Dreamweaver
- Using tag libraries in Dreamweaver
- Importing custom tags into Dreamweaver
- Use JavaScript behaviors (general instructions)
- Apply built-in JavaScript behaviors
- About XML and XSLT
- Perform server-side XSL transformations in Dreamweaver
- Performing client-side XSL transformations in Dreamweaver
- Add character entities for XSLT in Dreamweaver
- Format code
- Cross-product workflows
- Installing and using extensions to Dreamweaver
- In-App updates in Dreamweaver
- Insert Microsoft Office documents in Dreamweaver (Windows only)
- Working with Fireworks and Dreamweaver
- Edit content in Dreamweaver sites using Contribute
- Dreamweaver-Business Catalyst integration
- Create personalized email campaigns
- Templates
- About Dreamweaver templates
- Recognizing templates and template-based documents
- Create a Dreamweaver template
- Create editable regions in templates
- Create repeating regions and tables in Dreamweaver
- Use optional regions in templates
- Define editable tag attributes in Dreamweaver
- How to create nested templates in Dreamweaver
- Edit, update, and delete templates
- Export and import xml content in Dreamweaver
- Apply or remove a template from an existing document
- Edit content in Dreamweaver templates
- Syntax rules for template tags in Dreamweaver
- Set highlighting preferences for template regions
- Benefits of using templates in Dreamweaver
- Mobile and multiscreen
- Dynamic sites, pages and web forms
- Understand web applications
- Set up your computer for application development
- Troubleshoot database connections
- Removing connection scripts in Dreamweaver
- Design dynamic pages
- Dynamic content sources overview
- Define sources of dynamic content
- Add dynamic content to pages
- Changing dynamic content in Dreamweaver
- Display database records
- Provide and troubleshoot live data in Dreamweaver
- Add custom server behaviors in Dreamweaver
- Building forms using Dreamweaver
- Use forms to collect information from users
- Create and enable ColdFusion forms in Dreamweaver
- Create web forms
- Enhanced HTML5 support for form elements
- Develop a form using Dreamweaver
- Building applications visually
- Build master and detail pages in Dreamweaver
- Build search and results pages
- Build a record insert page
- Build an update record page in Dreamweaver
- Building record delete pages in Dreamweaver
- Use ASP commands to modify database in Dreamweaver
- Build a registration page
- Build a login page
- Build a page that only authorized users can access
- Securing folders in Coldfusion using Dreamweaver
- Using ColdFusion components in Dreamweaver
- Test, preview, and publish websites
- Troubleshooting
Learn about the known issues and limitations in the latest release of Dreamweaver.
May 2024 release (version 21.4)
- Sync Settings UI has been removed, and sync functionality has been discontinued.
Workaround: Use offline import and export settings functionality.
- User Settings (Keyboard Shortcuts, Favorites in Insert panel, and Workspaces) are not migrated when Dw is updated from version 20.x to 21.x.
Workaround: Manually copy the files to migrate the User Settings.
macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver 2020/<locale name>/
Windows: %appdata%\Adobe\Dreamweaver 2020\<locale name>\
Within the folder mentioned in the above location, navigate to the following subfolders to copy the custom User Settings and place it in the corresponding location within Dreamweaver 2021:
|
Copy required setting files from the subfolder |
Keyboard Shortcuts |
/Configuration/Menus/Custom Sets |
Workspace |
/Configuration/Workspace |
Favorites in Insert Panel |
/Configuration/Objects/insertbar.xml |
Toolbars |
/Configuration/Toolbars/toolbars.xml |
- On importing zip settings, a few settings, like Code Format entries, will not be restored after restarting Dw.
Workaround: Once you import the settings, close and re-invoke the Preferences dialog. Click the Apply button to remember the imported settings when the Dw app launches next.
June 2022 release (version 21.3)
- Unable to connect to SHA1-based algorithms for SFTP connections.
Workaround: Find use SFTP legacy algorithms from the config file.
- Mac Only: Unable to drag and drop selected code in code view.
October 2021 release (version 21.2)
Live view goes blank when a webpage has an invalid URL in the iFrame’s src.
Workaround: Specify correct src URL with the transfer protocols like http etc.
Media containers with H264/H265, VP9/VP8, .aac codecs and Flash based media files(.swf, .flv) will not be played in live view.
iFrame content displays blank after undo/redo workflow in live view after performing DOM panel or Live view operations like Copy/Paste, Duplicate etc.
Work-around: Refresh live view or re-open the file.
Pressing Esc key does not dismiss the Live view HUDs.
Workaround: Click outside the HUD to dismiss the pop-up.
Mac Only: Cannot invoke Apple menu when focus is in Code view.
Workaround:
1. Quit Dreamweaver.
2. Change the default keyboard shortcut of “Move focus to the menu bar” to something else, containing either of the keys Cmd/Ctrl/Option listed in the combination, setting is available under System Preferences - Keyboard - Shortcuts - Keyboard section.
3. Change the keyboard shortcut of “Move focus to the menu bar” back to default Ctrl+F2.
Learn tab is missing in the Start Screen.
Workaround: Navigate to Dreamweaver tutorials.
January 2021 release (version 21.1)
- Empty dialog box appears instead of the below message when incorrect credential is provided within Configure RDS Server dialog box:
Unable to resolve host. The URL appears to be invalid.
- In code view, the code color might not appear when the latest version of Dreamweaver is installed within updated Mac OSX 11 Big Sur.
Workaround: In the Preferences dialog, change the code view font available within Fonts tab.
- [macOS] In live view, selected text is not wrapped in <a> tag after browsing the target page.
- On downloading and inserting Ai files from Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries panel, SVG option is unavailable in file format options list.
- In Code Inspector, context menu operations are applied on code view, when code view is visible.
- [macOS 11.0] Close button to dismiss the Find and Replace dialog is not available.
Workaround: Press Esc key to dismiss the Find and Replace dialog.